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OAS in Crossroad on Cuba

Honduras, June 3, 2009. The 39th Organization of American States (OAS) general assembly faces Wednesday a crucial definition to lift Cuba''s expulsion by US pressures in 1962.

Foreign ministers from the bloc met until midnight yestarday in this northern Honduran city, but failed to reach consensus on the issue.

Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs Particia Rodas said negotiations will continue and participants must reach an accord before the assembly ends tonight.

"The situation must be solved in favor of the Cuban people and government, and without imposing conditions on Cuba. It is a sovereign country with right to self-determination like all regional nations," Rodas stressed.

This is the position of the nations belonging to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA): Bolivia, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominica, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Cuba is the seventh member, but it is not attending the meeting.

Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa told journalists that a group of countries had reached consensus on a bill about which ALBA delegates were consulting their governments.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin pointed out there is no accord yet and expressed his government's opposition to the resolution being adopted by voting.

"The OAS has been since its creation in 1948 an instrument of US domination on Latin America and the Caribbean," said Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega Tuesday in this city. (Cubaminrex- PL)

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